QUESTIONS - Will Christians Be Ashamed In The Final Judgment？
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of confessing our sins to the Lord, why we must confess to others, and why we should always confess to God. We also discuss the dangers of bitterness and how it can infect the whole church.
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Will we confess sins publicly in the final judgment and feel guilty in the final judgment?
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Great question. No. All right. So first I'm going to say no, and then I'm going to say yes.
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I'll distinguish between the two. I don't think we're going to confess our sins publicly in the
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final judgment because what that implies was contained in that image is that we're confessing
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our sins to men. Now we do have biblical commands in this life as a Christian church, confess your
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sins one to another, not just to the Lord, but one to another that you might pray for one another,
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And real quick, just on the issue of confession itself,
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It is acknowledging our sin and agreeing with God about what he says regarding the severity
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Confessing your sin to the Lord is not informing the Lord of your sin.
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So confessing your sin to the Lord does not mean that you're informing, merely informing
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it means that you are acknowledging and agreeing with God about what he says about your sin and
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the severity of your sin. That's what it is to confess your sin to the Lord. And that also by
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way of implication includes asking the Lord, petitioning the Lord for forgiveness, forgiveness
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and restoration that he would heal you. All right. So that's what it is that we need to confess.
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Everyone has to confess their sin to the Lord because even though he's omniscient, confession
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is much more than simply information, informing.
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So we first, we must confess our sins to the Lord,
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agreeing with God and what he says in his word about our sin,
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is not a substitute for confessing our sins to the Lord.
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So in this life, we must confess our sin to the Lord
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that we need to confess also not only to the Lord,
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But in addition, not substitution, but in addition, we need to also confess those sins
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to fellow brothers and sisters in Christ so that, there's a reason, so that they may pray
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for us so that we might be healed, that we need the prayers of the saints.
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We need not only our own petition for God to restore us, but we need intercession from
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other believers that they would also join us, agree with us in prayer, interceding on
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I think of certain sins that people are bound by, certain foothold type sins, right?
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I think of not just addiction, substance abuse, those kinds of things, but I think of bitterness.
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Be careful, brothers, the scripture says, that there not be found in any of you a rotten
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root of bitterness that would be a foothold, that would be a root that would spring up
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by which many would be defiled, that it wouldn't just hurt you, but it would hurt the whole
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So bitterness could be a kind of foothold type sin,
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And therefore, it makes sense to rally the troops,
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to join you in praying for you that you might be delivered,
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that you would stop being, by God's grace, a bitter person.
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We sometimes confess our sins one to another that we might pray for one another, that we
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Confession to one another, to our fellow man, is particular, I believe, biblically particular
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to this life because in this life, we have not reached a state of sinless perfection.
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So that they might pray for us, so that we might be healed.
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in heaven with the final judgment, we're all healed. We have reached a state of sinless
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perfection. First John talks about this. When we see him, talking about Christ, we will be like
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him for we shall see him as he is. We'll be like Jesus when we, and it's talking about when we go
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to heaven at the end of this life, when we stand before Christ and we actually see him, it says
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that immediately, it's an immediately, an immediate transformation. We will be like him in what we
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regard. Not every regard. He's divine. We won't be divine. We'll always be creatures. We'll never
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be God. But we will be like him in what way? Sinless. We will see him as he is, that he is
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the sinless one. He is righteous. And so we have in the gospel, in the finished work of Christ,
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we have the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and the presence of sin. Christ, through his cross,
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he has paid the penalty of sin he is also by virtue of his death and resurrection he has broken the
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power of sin so there is freedom in this life not a state of sinless perfection but that doesn't
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mean that we're a hopeless cause we can gain real victory in sanctification in this life from the
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power of sin so the penalty is paid the power is broken but the presence of sin still remains as
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long as we're in this life right paul says romans chapter 7 sin still resides within the members of
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my body and then he says at the end of it he doesn't say oh what a wretched man i am who will
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save my soul no his soul has already been saved what he says is oh what a wretched man i am who
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will save me from this body of death he recognizes that the completion of his salvation involves not
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just justification for his soul not just sanctification by the renewing of his mind
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but also glorification the the resurrection of his physical body so that so that sin would no
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longer reside within the members of his flesh, that he would be saved, not just from the penalty
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of sin, the power of sin, but even the mere presence of sin. So at the end of this life,
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we do reach a state of sinless perfection by virtue of having glorified bodies, our
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sanctification now complete, our glorification now complete, resurrected bodies, standing before
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Christ, seeing him as he is, that he is sinless and therefore being like him. And because we will
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therefore at that point be sinless, we no longer need to be prayed for so that we might be healed.
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And therefore, I would argue that we no longer need to confess our sins one to another.
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So in judgment, in the final judgment, I don't believe, let's bring the question back up one
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more time. Nathan, if you could bring the question up one more time. Again, for those who are maybe
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just tuning in, this is a question from Roll Flores, Roll Flores, some number, BR, no, not
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numbers, but letters. Roll Flores, BR, he says, will we confess sins publicly in the final judgment?
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So I would say, no, we're not going to confess our sins publicly in the sense of them being
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out loud where other people can hear. I do believe though there will be not so much us
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confessing our sins to God, but God rather letting us know, reminding us of our sins. I think that it
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will be the moment where we are informed about our sin because here's the deal. There are sins
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of commission things we do that are wrong and omission things we don't do that we should that
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are right and and there are there's so many sins that we don't even know about right now if you're
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a christian being sanctified you are objectively being formed by the spirit working in conjunction
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with god's word objectively being conformed more into the image of christ and yet there are sins
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that you you don't have a victory over yet and there are sins you don't have victory over that
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you don't even have knowledge about. You don't even know. You don't. Part of sanctification is
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winning, gaining victory over sin, but part of sanctification is also being further and further
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informed by the Word of God and receiving the conviction of the Holy Spirit to where we
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recognize certain things as sin that previously we didn't even know were wrong. There are certain
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things that I now see are sinful that I did not see as sinful just even a few years ago, even
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though I was still a Christian at that time. And so I believe that the final judgment will be God
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informing us of our sin and also informing his law and therefore our sin, but also the gospel
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that our sin has been atoned for. The penalty has been paid in full by Christ. And I think that
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that'll be some kind of moment between us and God where God does inform us of all of our sins,
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but not so much publicly where everybody else knows.
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a universal spirit of humility among the saints in heaven.
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people will hear about all our dirty deeds on earth.
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But we will hear about all our dirty deeds on earth
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from God himself, and then be reminded of the gospel of Jesus Christ, that they've all been
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